THE DISCOURSES OF EPICTETUS; WITH THE ENCHEIRIDION AND FRAGMENTS. TRANSLATED, WITH NOTES, A LIFE OF EPICTETUS, AND A VIEW OF HIS BY GEORGE LONG. "The important question, What is the rule of Life? is lost out of "Consider thyself to be dead, and to have completed thy life up to LONDON: GEORGE BELL AND SONS, YORK STREET, COVENT GARDEN. 1888. All rights reserved. ΤΟ ESTHER LAWRENCE, A DILIGENT READER OF EPICTETUS, TO WHOM THE TRANSLATOR OWES MANY USEFUL REMARKS. CONTENTS. BOOK I. CHAP. I. OF THE THINGS WHICH ARE IN OUR POWER, AND NOT . II. How A MAN ON EVERY OCCASION CAN MAINTAIN HIS 4 . III. HOW A MAN SHOULD PROCEED FROM THE PRINCIPLE OF IV. OF PROGRESS OR IMPROVEMENT V. AGAINST THE ACADEMICS VI. OF PROVIDENCE VII, OF THE USE OF SOPHISTICAL ARGUMENTS AND HYPO- VIII. THAT THE FACULTIES ARE NOT SAFE TO THE UN- IX. HOW FROM THE FACT THAT WE ARE AKIN TO GOD A 13 17 X. AGAINST THOSE WHO EAGERLY SEEK PREFERMENT AT XIII. How EVERYTHING MAY BE DONE ACCEPTABLY TO THE 41 XIV. THAT THE DEITY OVERSEES ALL THINGS XVII. THAT THE LOGICAL ART IS NECESSARY XVIII. THAT WE OUGHT NOT TO BE ANGRY WITH THE ERRORS XIX. How WE SHOULD BEHAVE TO TYRANTS XX. ABOUT REASON AND HOW IT CONTEMPLATES ITSELF 23 28 30 35 37 45 46 49 50 52 55 |